Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-28

The keel OF the Corones was laid In PoilIon,s
ship yard at the foot OF Bridge street, New York,
ON March 2sth, 1885. Her design and model were
the subject of much consideration on the part OF
herowner and In her build and fittings nothing
has been spared In the features OF excellent ma
tertal neat workmanship and strength OF fastening
no better hull was ever built in this country than
the Coronet, and plenty OF time was taken to per-
form the work, for IL was not until the summer OF
1886 that she was put in commission, at cost OF
Ss5, 900. She made the run across from Sandy
Hook TO Cowes last year in IL days. In making
this passage she proved herself fast vessel and
In one run OF 20 hours she logged 22O miles. she
beat, from the Needles TO the Lizard, In the Eng
lish channel, against strong west By north wind.
IN % hours, and in her passage to the westward
across the Atlantic last season. which. made
against heavy weather, consumed u days, she
proved to be an able sea boat She was laid up
Immediately on her arrival, and the yachting
world has received no greater surprise than when
on last New Years Day, her spirited owner issued
his challenge 10 American keel schooners to sail
him an ocean race from Sandy Hook To Queens
town Harb0r."
The Dauntless has record 1t is true that the
British schooner Cambria beat her in an ocean
race from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in 1870 In.
An 4JS, but the respective log books showed
that the Dauntess sailed fOrtysix miles more than
the Cambria did in making the passage In Sep
TENDER of the same year she won the Douglass
cup, beating the New York Yacht Club fleet in a
race, with no time allowance, twenty miles 10
windward and back from buoy No. 90, Off the
Hook On October IA, 1870, she sailed match
brta, and beat her Lem. Jos. in actual time. The
schooner Sappho and the DauntlcSs sailed q match
race, twenty-five miles TO windward and back,
from the Sandy Hook lightship, on October25, 1870,
and the Sappho won by 12rn. AS. In the regatta
OF the Brooklyn Yacht Club that was sailed over
the present New York Yacht Club course on June
no time allowance, and her competitors were such
cracks as the schooners Sappho, FleetWing,
,rarolinta. She was the second in the run
down from sandy Hook to Cape May light
Wanderer, the latter yacht beating her 5sIn.
and the Sappho III. lam. In the regatta OF the
Eastern Yacht Club on Swampscott Mass, on
Columbia, which yacht won the race in competi-
ton with craft like the schooners SapphO, Dread
vesta, Eva, and the Idler On october "a, 1871,
the DauntleSS sailed a match race against the
British schooner Lvonia, twenty miles 70 wind,
won by Him. 3SS., and three days afterwards she
beat the schooner Dreadnaught over the same
course 81 minutes. She was second TO the Palmer
In the race for the Citizens cup OF Newport, r. L.
on September 10th, 1872. and the Vesta, Magic
southwest breeze on the run over from Newport to
Vineyard Haven on August 14th, 1875, she beat
the whole fleet, the schooners Foam, Alarm, WAN
competitors. She won from the big schooner
Mohawk in the race between them on
csntsTboard ' sebodner Resoute n In. 5sm. ISIS.
in race from of Stapleton, s. l., to Five FathOm
Bank lghtship-on the CapeS OF the DELAWARE
purchased by the late j. X. Waller, and sold by
him TO her present owner In the summer OF 1857,
since which time her principal service has been
cruising OF shore. The DauntleSs Is commanded
by Capt. SamuelS, late OF the Dreadnaught His
officers are: First mate w. III. MahOney, from
Brooklyn; second mate, j. III. WillbankS, OF Phila-
delphia; bOatSwain, Robt. Harrington, OF Phtla-
delphia; carpenter, G. III. Riverwale, OF Jersey
City; stewards, III. a. Myer and ChaS. Brown, OF
New York. There are sixteen men before the mast.
There are two QuartermaSter-Reuben F. Willis,
OF Nova Scotia, and Earnest vijon, of Bordeaux,
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are Mr.. Jno. II. Bird. secretary OF the New York
Yacht Club, and Mr. Ernest Staples, who was one
OF the party on the Fleetwing on the OCCASION OF
the ocean race with the VeSta and Henrietta in
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